Re: Apache/rh8/grrrr

From: 'Dungeon' Dave (Newsgroup_at_tombstones.org.uk)
Date: 04/28/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 21:01:24 +0100

begin not.binary!

And delif2 <cq_samurai@hotmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid> confused OE
posters with...
>Ok I got out my duct-tape and have a half @ed fix going. I
>set DirectoryIndex to index.html so it will pull the file but this
>seems like a dirty way to get what I want. It seems like this is
>redundant to setting index.htm index.html etc. to the directory page
>search list. Isn't that the point of having it?

I'm not certain what you mean by that. DirectoryIndex is supposed to be
the search list for the index page in the webroot directory.
>
>Any suggestions out there before I scrap Linux as a web server again
>and go back to IIS?

Yup: (a) check the weblogs (b) check the apache documentation - comes
installed with apache. And (c) patch IIS to the hilt and check the
logfiles CAREFULLY for any evidence that non-ordinary files are trying
to be accessed.
>---------------
>Window may be a large corrupt money grubbing software hog bent
>on taking over the world, but it does what I tell it to! No
>honestly it does! I swear it!

Don't suppose you can tell mine to work, can you? 

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